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The South Carolina Divison of Diabetes Prevention and Control (SC DPCP) was established in 1994 and sustained through funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Diabetes Translation. The program is housed and managed within the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control’s (DHEC) Bureau of Community Health and Chronic Disease Prevention. Through partnerships and related community and statewide interventions, the SC DPCP overarching goals and objectives are to:

• Prevent complications, disabilities, and burden associated with diabetes.
• Eliminate diabetes-related health disparities.

We plan to accomplish this through:

• Uniformed diabetes standards of care endorsed in the state,
• Diabetes standards of care incorporated into clinical outcomes, and
• Increasing the percent of people living with diabetes receiving standards of care.

Our targeted population is mainly working with the disparate populations within our state, which include African American and Hispanic/Latino as well as the elderly. Our top issue is to ensure that all people with diabetes receive the recommended diabetes standards of care from their healthcare providers to support self-management.

Since a primary mission of the SC DPCP has been to ensure a coordinated approach to diabetes prevention and control efforts in SC, we have established linkages and collaborated with key agencies and organizations across the state as well as continue to seek access to evidence-based information and expertise to ensure we are doing all we can to reduce the burden of diabetes in our state.

Therefore, the SC DPCP has partnered with the REACH US: SEA-CEED Program (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) and the Diabetes Initiative of South Carolina (DSC) to develop a statewide diabetes advisory council, which will work together to produce the next statewide diabetes strategic plan. DSC previously served as the program’s advisory council, and we will continue to work closely with them.

Also, by way of expanding and widening linkages, the SC DPCP will continue to collaborate with other internal and external programs and agencies such as DHEC’s Bureau of Community Health and Chronic Disease Prevention, regional health offices, and the Office of Minority Health; Local Diabetes Coalitions and Community Groups, the Diabetes Today Advisory Council, the Medical University of South Carolina, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, Medicaid, the Carolina Center for Medical Excellence, the South Carolina Primary Health Care Association, the Community Health Centers, Physicians Offices, the Kidney Foundation, University of South Carolina Prevention Research Center, Rural Health Organizations, and others.

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